grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

[Trever L. Adams]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:22 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> I'm clueless... but  is there an application in Core for playing audio
> cds that can duplicate xmms's "digital audio extraction" option?  I
> still notice a lot of people who run into this problem when trying to
> play audio cds and the only application I know in Core that doesn't
> require the analog audio cable from the cd drive to the sound card is
> xmms.  Right now the best workaround I know of is to use xmms for
> audio cd playing and configuring xmms to do digital audio extraction
> instead of analog.  Seems gnome's cd player in fc3 doesn't know
> anything about this which makes keeping xmms somewhat compelling as a
> cd player even if rhythmbox has equivalent media library capabilities.
> 
> -jef"yeah i know.. actually using audio cds instead of ripping them to
> oggs is sooooo 1990's"spaleta
> 

For someone who understands gstreamer, this should be a VERY simple
plugin to write I would think.

Trever
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